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RefNoJBO/5/109
AltRefNoJBO/5/139
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of meeting
Date27 January 1676
Description ' The Secretary produced from his Hignesse Prince Rupert a peice of Marble, having several Pictures of Boyes and Trees painted upon it in such a manner, that all the outlines of the said Pictures are exactly defined without any flowing of the Colours abroad, and the colours fixed by the fire, and afterwards so polished, that they will be permanent as long as the Marble lasts.

The Company acjnowledged this to be a very great improvement of what had been done at Oxford by a certain STonecutter there, and that ll what had been performed hitherto in this Art was not comparable to this degree of improvement.

They ordered, that the humble and hearty thanks of the Society should be returned by the Secretary to his Highnesse, for the favour he had done them in giving them a Sight of his Speciment of this excellent Art.

Mr Hook said, that he conceived there were but two Colours in this Peice, and the he had a way of doing it with most colours, and to paint with them upon MArble almost as curiously as with a pencil.

Mr Newton's letter of January 25th was read, wherein he acknowledges the favour of the Societyin their kind acceptance of his late papers, and declares, that he know not how to deny anything which they desire should be done; onely he desires that the printing his Observations about Colours may be suspended a while, because he hath some thoughts of writing such another Set of Observations for determining the manner of the production of Colours by the Prisme, which Observations he saith ought to precede those now in our hands, and with doe best to be joyned with them.

There was also read a letter of Mr Pascalls of Sommersetshire to Mr Aubrey dated January 18 1675 [1676] containing some Natural Observations of that County, viz. concerning the nature of the Lead-mines in Mindip-hills; Well resembling the Sulphur - well near the Spaw in Yorkshire; a Spring petrifying far more than the Dropping-well at Knaresborough in the North; the motion of some Underground Waters in the Parishes of Zoyland, formerly recovered from the Sea, etc.

Ordered , that these two letters be registered, and the persons that wrote them thanked.

Ordered also, tha the reading of Mr Newton's Discourse about Colours be continued at the next meeting.
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